Leonard Bentley
Piccadilly Circus: 1961
This is a found slide which had a very pronounced red cast, showing Piccadilly Circus looking north towards Shaftesbury Avenue. It is 1961 and the British American thriller, “The Naked Edge” is playing at the London Pavilion. It starred Deborah Kerr and Gary Cooper in his last film, he made it whilst suffering from terminal cancer. It ran from 25th August until 22nd September 1961. Gary Cooper was born in 1901 in Helena, Montana of English parents, his father Charles had emigrated to the US aged nineteen and became a rancher, lawyer and a judge of the Montana supreme court. He came from Houghton Regis in Bedfordshire, his mother, Alice came from Gillingham in Kent. In 1910 Gary and his older brother Arthur were taken by their mother to England to have an English education. Both boys were enrolled at Dunstable Grammar School where they remained until 1913 when the family returned to Montana. There is now a blue plaque on a house in Houghton Regis where they stayed and a J.D. Wetherspoon pub in Dunstable is now called “The Gary Cooper”. There is a hoarding on the left underneath the "Coca-Cola" sign advertising “The Music Man” at the Adelphi Theatre, the production ran from 16th March 1961 until 24th February 1962, it starred Van Johnson and Patricia Lambert with Denis Waterman in a supporting role.
Piccadilly Circus: 1961
This is a found slide which had a very pronounced red cast, showing Piccadilly Circus looking north towards Shaftesbury Avenue. It is 1961 and the British American thriller, “The Naked Edge” is playing at the London Pavilion. It starred Deborah Kerr and Gary Cooper in his last film, he made it whilst suffering from terminal cancer. It ran from 25th August until 22nd September 1961. Gary Cooper was born in 1901 in Helena, Montana of English parents, his father Charles had emigrated to the US aged nineteen and became a rancher, lawyer and a judge of the Montana supreme court. He came from Houghton Regis in Bedfordshire, his mother, Alice came from Gillingham in Kent. In 1910 Gary and his older brother Arthur were taken by their mother to England to have an English education. Both boys were enrolled at Dunstable Grammar School where they remained until 1913 when the family returned to Montana. There is now a blue plaque on a house in Houghton Regis where they stayed and a J.D. Wetherspoon pub in Dunstable is now called “The Gary Cooper”. There is a hoarding on the left underneath the "Coca-Cola" sign advertising “The Music Man” at the Adelphi Theatre, the production ran from 16th March 1961 until 24th February 1962, it starred Van Johnson and Patricia Lambert with Denis Waterman in a supporting role.